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OpenDNS To Participate in Anti-SOPA Protests

OpenDNS, the world’s largest DNS provider, won’t join in the anti-SOPA blackout that Reddit and Wikipedia are spearheading, but they will join in the protest in another capacity by demonstrating “the near-random methodology SOPA and PIPA propose to determine those websites contributing to piracy, and also what the Internet would look like if their fate was to be blocked.”

“As the world’s largest DNS provider, more than 30 million people rely on OpenDNS to connect to the Internet. Without functioning DNS, you’d need to know the IP address for every website you visit. And lots of parents, schools and businesses rely on our website to manage their DNS and Web security settings. All that said, taking our service or website down for a day is not an effective way for OpenDNS to show our firm opposition to the bills. Since folks on Twitter and elsewhere are asking, we will be showing our support tomorrow, but we will not be taking OpenDNS offline.

“What is an effective way for us to show our opposition is to censor search results on our Guide. One component of our service, OpenDNS Guide, helps give users a more thoughtful next step when navigating the Internet than the dead end of a 404 error. So when users of our free services attempt to visit a website that’s having technical issues, we show them search results that are based on what they entered in their search bar.

“For one business day starting at 8 AM Eastern time tomorrow, we will randomly redact the text of search results appearing in OpenDNS Guide pageviews. This is not a decision we take lightly and we’re fully aware it can, and will, create a frustrating experience both for our users, and for owners of websites being censored. But with 30 million+ users we have the equivalent of a megaphone on the Internet.”

In other words, OpenDNS will be randomly censoring search results in an attempt to illustrate the random censorship that these bills would inevitably result in. Other companies opposed to the anti-piracy legislation include Twitter, Facebook, and Google – none of which will bring down their sites during tomorrow’s protest.

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Skeptic Tank at http://www.SkepticTank.Org is also going dark in the morning, it is ranked 138,845 in the United States, 547,194 globally.

Despite the Obama regime trying to lay low on this SOPA act of treason against our country, the blackout is going forward since it’s obvious the Wall Street traitors will try to commit this against our country again once the current outrage dies down.